Monthly Archives: August 2013

Pro-Gun Psychologist Comes Down on Facebook.

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I love Dr. Keith Ablow, who wouldn’t love a a man who writes columns like:

“The psychological and public health benefits of gun ownership.”

Yet when it comes Facebook, the modern day equivalent of the town square, he compares it to tobacco and demands a warning label:

“Facebook has been linked, in numerous clinical trials both here and around the world, to feelings of intense envy, dissatisfaction with life, insomnia, major depression, disrupted friendships and feelings of isolation — especially in young people.

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Placing such a warning on Facebook would be a first, serious step by the U.S. government to alert the public to known hazards of Facebook use, and over-use.  It would also set the stage for putting Facebook on notice that they cannot ignore the growing number of studies that link their product to more than one illness.

I have written before that class action lawyers are, no doubt, eyeing Facebook for its liability in causing or deepening psychiatric disorders in, perhaps, hundreds of thousands of cases.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/08/26/facebook-needs-warning-label/#ixzz2dKLUOAsn

For crying out loud, doctor, Facebook isn’t anymore dangerous than TV, video games, or any activity an individual abuses.  You might as well put a warning label on Stephen King’s books, specially since the book Rage inspired one teenager to go on a school shooting. Yet do I blame King? No, I blame the individual and the gun-free zone that allowed him to face no armed opposition.

Besides, who says everybody uses Facebook the same way? I use it mainly to read news, comment on news stories, Like pages of my favorite TV shows, and sometimes debate politics with good friends.

Furthermore, I am sick and tired of warning labels, there’s so many of them that most people ignore them. If you want to complain about Facebook, find something meaningful to say. Complain of the liberal bias of Zuckerberg and his gestapo, complain of the censorship conservatives and other politically incorrect people face, complain of how anyone can report your post or account and Facebook will take action before talking to you.

I don’t care if some loser is depressed because his picture of a hanging cat didn’t get enough likes, that person has problems beyond Facebook, and no warning label in the world is going to change anything.

But the censorship Facebook engages in, that’s troubling even if it’s fully protected by the First Amendment.

 

 

Unarmed Slate Writer Thinks Top Shot Can Help Liberals Understand Gun Culture.

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I’m not an huge fan of Top Shot, the marksmanship is nice, but it has zero politics, zero drama, and it never mentions why owning guns is a good thing.

“For people like me, who neither own a gun nor know very many people who do, the show helps counteract some of the most extreme, uninformed stereotypes that many liberals and urbanites have about “gun guys.” The show clearly demonstrates something that often gets lost in the heat of the gun control debate: that gun owners aren’t all crazy survivalists or slavering right-wing fanatics. A lot of them are just reasonable, responsible sportsmen who enjoy shooting guns because shooting guns can be a lot of fun.”
Source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/08/28/top_shot_colby_donaldson_s_reality_show_could_teach_liberals_about_gun_culture.html

You mean gun owners that keep their traps shut and don’t speak out against gun control? That’s your definition of reasonable? By the way, what’s wrong with being a “crazy survivalist”? In the movie “You’re Next” it is the girl raised by “crazy survivalists” that survives the killers hired to murder an entire family. If you were in New Orleans during Katrina, where do you want to be? At the house that has no water, no food, no purification tablets, or far away at a survivalist compound?

“I get the sense that the History Channel almost didn’t air this current season, presumably because, after the Sandy Hook shootings, the network worried that the time wasn’t right for a show about guns. But the exact opposite is true. In this time of polarized discourse around guns and gun control, the country needs a show like Top Shot more than ever. Here’s hoping tonight isn’t the end of its run.”

Yet The History Channel does air God, Guns & Automobiles which features a car dealer that shoots guns, speaks pro-gun politics, and is far more politically incorrect than the contestants on Top Shot.

To be fair, Top Shot does show how much fun shooting guns is, so with increased familiarity, maybe there will be less fears and perhaps a few liberals will head out to the gun range and discover the Second Amendment is a great thing.

Gun Laws Don’t Apply to Black Panthers.

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It’s good to be a Black Panther, you can basically do whatever you want, put a bounty on Zimmerman, sell illegal guns, write bad checks. Who care? You’re black and you’re proud and you have self-hating crackers kissing your ass.

“Gun charges against a new Black Panther Party leader have been dropped, court officials said.

After pleading guilty in Gwinnett County last year to writing a bad check for $3,000, a felony, Hashim Nzinga was arrested for selling a gun at a DeKalb County pawn shop, authorities said.

It is illegal in Georgia for a convicted felon to have a gun, and Nzinga, 49, was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and arrested on March 26.

Last week, DeKalb County prosecutors dismissed the charge.

Nzinga hadn’t been told he shouldn’t own a firearm, DeKalb Assistant District Attorney Helen Peters told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“I got confirmation from Gwinnett that he wasn’t notified of his rights until after he sold the gun,” Peters said.”

Days before Nzinga’s arrest, the Stone Mountain father of six and chief of staff of the New Black Panther Party told the news media the organization was offering a $10,000 bounty for the “citizen’s arrest” of George Zimmerman, who admitted to killing unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in self-defense last year in Sanford, Fla.

Nzinga was in jail for nearly four months, his supporters claiming that his client was denied a probable cause hearing as retaliation for the bounty on Zimmerman.

Source: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/new-black-panther-leaders-gun-charges-dropped/nZfXJ/

Good job, Helen Peters! You just put another CRIMINAL back on the streets.

 

 

Dirty Money Fights Recall Election in Colorado.

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In Colorado, Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron are fighting a recall brought by their anti-gun votes. Well, there’s plenty of dirty money coming their way:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote a personal check for $350,000 to Taxpayers for Responsible Democracy (the front group fighting for them).

Billionaire Eli Broad also wrote a $250,000.

Conservation Colorado chipped in $75,000 to date.

Miami philanthropist Barbara Stiefel, who wrote a check for $20,000

“Coloradans have demonstrated in election after election that they cannot be bought by elitist out-of-state billionaires like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg,” said Compass Colorado’s Kelly Maher in a statement.
Source: http://kdvr.com/2013/08/27/bloomberg-gives-350k-to-morse-girons-recall-defense/

“Coloradans have demonstrated in election after election that they cannot be bought by elitist out-of-state billionaires like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg,” said Compass Colorado’s Kelly Maher in a statement.

“As a state that values our individualism, we don’t appreciate nanny state politicians who tried to ban Big Gulps, and attempted to regulate soda and trans fats trying to force their political agendas on us.  No matter how much money Mayor Bloomberg gives to Senators Morse and Giron, it is Colorado voters who will have the final say on September 10th.”
Source: Idem

I hope Kelly’s right, if you’d like to help Compass or learn more about them, this is their link. http://compasscolorado.org/